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3.—(1) The Board shall not exercise their discretion to approve a personal pension scheme under section 631 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988(1), in circumstances where the scheme is established under a trust or trusts by a person other than one mentioned in section 632(1)(a) to (e) of that Act(2), unless either paragraph (2) or (3) of this regulation is satisfied.
(2) This paragraph is satisfied if—
(a)the scheme is a trust scheme within the meaning given by section 124(1) of the Pensions Act 1995(3) or Article 121(1) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(4); and
(b)the trust deed for the scheme contains a provision that—
(i)applies if the scheme is at any time a small self-administered scheme; and
(ii)falls within the description specified in regulation 9 of the Retirement Benefits Schemes (Restriction on Discretion to Approve) (Small Self-administered Schemes) Regulations 1991(5).
(3) This paragraph is satisfied if—
(a)an application has been made under section 2 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999(6) or article 4 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999(7) for the registration of the scheme as a stakeholder pension scheme; and
(b)the approval of the scheme by the Board as a personal pension scheme is conditional on that registration taking place.
Section 631 was amended by section 94(2) of the Finance Act 1998 (c. 36) and paragraph 6 of Schedule 13 to the Finance Act 2000 (c. 17).
Section 632 was amended by S.I. 1997/2388, 1998/993 and the Personal Pension Schemes (Establishment of Schemes) Order 2000 (2000/2317).
S.I. 1995/3213.
S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11).
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